Washington State Senate ElectionPatty Murray (D) vs. Dino Rossi (R) Patty Murray: A Democrat; In 1992 she won her first election in the U.S. Senate. Today she holds the honor of being elected by her peers to serve in the Senate’s leadership as Conference Secretary. She also serves on the Appropriations, Budget, health, education, labor and pensions veterans’ affairs, and rules and administration committees. She chairs the Transportation-Housing Subcommittee and Employment Workplace and Safety Subcommittee on the Appropriations and HELP Committees. Dino Rossi: A Republican; Dino Rossi: he is a businessman who will be trying to turn our economy around and putting people in his state back to work starts with getting government spending under control. He served in the Washington state Senate from 1997 through 2003. He represented the 5th legislative District in east King County. In 2003 he served as chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee where he produced the state’s budget. He currently serves as a Secretary for the board of the Special Olympics for the State of Washington and is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board for the School of Business at Seattle University. Key Issues:- Government Spending
Dino Rossi: He has three proposed ideas to combat this issue
Cancel unspent bailout and stimulus funds and direct them toward deficit reduction.
Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment with a supermajority to raise taxes.
Cut Government Employment and reduce overly generous pay and benefits.
Patty Murray:
Ensuring federal dollars are well-managed, well-spent, and being used to promote economic growth.
- Economy
Dino Rossi:
Promote economic growth and create jobs.
Patty Murray:
Ensuring the American workforce has the skills and training necessary to remain a world economic leader.
Strengthening our housing market to restore stability and expand homeownership.
Ensuring financial markets are properly regulated to prevent market manipulation and encourage stability and investment.
Expanding our alternative energy and technology industries.
Making higher education affordable and accessible to ensure a skilled workforce.
- Health Care
Dino Rossi:
Replace Pelosi-Reid healthcare bill with something that will actually lower health insurance costs , improve access to a greater variety of health insurance plans, and give people choice in picking their doctors .
Allow citizens to buy health insurance across state lines, as they do for other types of insurance.
Make offering insurance more affordable for small businesses by allowing them to join together and get the discounts available to big corporations.
Give individuals the same tax deductions as corporations.
Patty Murray:
Expanding access.
Reining in costs while ensuring quality health care.
Decreasing long-term costs through treatment and prevention.
Ensuring access to mental health coverage and services.
Supporting landmark research and technological advances to ensure access to the best health care possible.
Predicted Outcome:
- Both party members have very strong stances on certain issues. Murray has a strong chance of winning due to here being in term for so long and is well known. And Rossi has a strong chance aswell due to his ideas on the economy and is his highest priority. I think Rossi will win because his plans are more toward the issues currently. Poll Numbers:
Patty Murray: A Democrat; In 1992 she won her first election in the U.S. Senate. Today she holds the honor of being elected by her peers to serve in the Senate’s leadership as Conference Secretary. She also serves on the Appropriations, Budget, health, education, labor and pensions veterans’ affairs, and rules and administration committees. She chairs the Transportation-Housing Subcommittee and Employment Workplace and Safety Subcommittee on the Appropriations and HELP Committees.
Dino Rossi: A Republican; Dino Rossi: he is a businessman who will be trying to turn our economy around and putting people in his state back to work starts with getting government spending under control. He served in the Washington state Senate from 1997 through 2003. He represented the 5th legislative District in east King County. In 2003 he served as chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee where he produced the state’s budget. He currently serves as a Secretary for the board of the Special Olympics for the State of Washington and is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board for the School of Business at Seattle University.
Key Issues:- Government Spending
- Dino Rossi: He has three proposed ideas to combat this issue
- Cancel unspent bailout and stimulus funds and direct them toward deficit reduction.
- Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment with a supermajority to raise taxes.
- Cut Government Employment and reduce overly generous pay and benefits.
- Patty Murray:
- Ensuring federal dollars are well-managed, well-spent, and being used to promote economic growth.
- Economy- Health Care
Predicted Outcome:
- Both party members have very strong stances on certain issues. Murray has a strong chance of winning due to here being in term for so long and is well known. And Rossi has a strong chance aswell due to his ideas on the economy and is his highest priority. I think Rossi will win because his plans are more toward the issues currently.
Poll Numbers: